WHAT THEY SAID

Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: "What went wrong? Not enough recovery time, no doubt about that. The energy of the players just couldn't get us in the faces of Swansea, they had an extra day and that told. You could see that.

"Our lads put so much in against Arsenal and you saw the effects of that. It wasn't an even playing field.

"It's difficult to take. We have all the science we have, we know the fatigue levels and the high intensity runs the players make and we knew they wouldn't be able to make them tonight. And they couldn't. Perhaps I picked the wrong side, I should have changed four or five.

"Whether you're tired or not you have to play and I told them that at half time. I was baffled with our first-half display, we were lumping the ball to Christian Benteke and who told them to do that? They were confused.

"It was a blatant penalty on Christian Benteke, outrageous that it wasn't given. That would have been a great lift."

Swansea first-team coach Alan Curtis, who picked the team that beat Crystal Palace 2-1, said: "It is a terrific result for us and a huge three points. The first half performance, we were excellent and we could have gone in with more than the one goal.

"We have been accused of lacking character but we came back and won it and I thought we deserved it. In training you can see the players have the ability, it is just the confidence that has been lacking. We deserved some luck today.

"Any team under Sam Allardyce will come on strongly, they have some terrific players. We had 24 hours more rest compared to them and that may have made a difference."